One of the things I find frustrating me more and more is the messaging on the VX-8. The finctionality is definately there and the feature is a massive bonus as I found out recently when trying to activate Burnbank Fell and walking straight past it. Colin 2E0XSD sent me a message asking me in the nicest possible way if I knew what I was doing. Clearly not. For those that don't know Burnbank Fell is a Wainwright Fell and the summit is just a post in the ground that is easily missed if you don't have it fully mapped ouot in GPS and triangulated against other points. I just didn't beleive it was the top as it was so non-desript and slightly higher than I thought and headed off to another summit only a few metres away that looked like a 'proper' summit.
He later went on to send me a help message when I reached Gavel fell which read 'Stop, you're on Gavel fell summit'. I laughed, but secretly wished I didn't have messaging at that point as i couldn't tap out a snappy response quickly enough.
So I've cobbled this together for a quick reference for myself rather than for any completeness but feel free to add in any 'standard' messages I ought to be putting in the memories. There are 7 in total. I don't tend to use them as I haven't got the button presses stuck in my head yet.
1. Find Nearest Fell
To: QRU
Message: ?WOTA
2. Summit as object
To: G4ILO
Message: ?APRSO LDW...(Fell Number)
3. Spots
To:ANSRVR
Messahe: CQ WOTA
In mesasaging menu
To clear text
Press Band
Press A/B
Press V/M
To insert character after standard message
Press A/B
Press V/M
Scroll to - Insert Text
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